Thanks to Pizza-themed “Imagine” Cover, Herman Cain Is the Only Funny Republican Candidate

By now, you’ve likely seen Herman Cain’s long lost cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” tweaked slightly so that its subject is no longer the dream of utopia but the widespread availability of pizza. Sample lyric: “Imagine there’s no pizza/I couldn’t if I tried/Eating only tacos or Kentucky Fried.” It almost goes without saying that we’ve never liked Herman Cain as much as we do after seeing the video.

It’s difficult to remember the last presidential candidate who was genuinely, intentionally funny. Recall Tim Pawlenty’s disastrous gesture toward humor: “If this was a Lady Gaga song, the relationship between the youth vote and Barack Obama would be ‘Bad Romance,’” he told a crowd of college students last spring, like some underdeveloped Christopher Guest character.

The last time Mitt Romney inserted his “COMEDY: CULTURAL REFERENCE” chip into his Personalitron 3000 reader, he completely malfunctioned:

Jon Huntsman, a current candidate for president who is neither Mitt Romney nor Herman Cain, made a Nirvana joke at the CNN Republican presidential debate. Much of the audience of the CNN Republican presidential debate did not, unbelievably, get Huntsman’s reference to the 1993 grunge hit “All Apologies.”